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Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
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Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do. ‘This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny’ Caroline Criado-Perez Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men’s rights activist. Forget feel-good heroines: meet the feminist trailblazers who have been airbrushed from history for being ‘difficult’ – and discover how they made a difference. Here are their stories in all their shocking, funny and unvarnished glory. ** Shortlisted in the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards ** ‘All the history you need to understand why you’re so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now. A book that is part intellectual weapon in your handbag, part cocktail with a friend’ Caitlin Moran’Compulsive, rigorous, unforgettable, hilarious and devastating’ Hadley Freeman ‘A great manifesto for all those women who have never been very good at being well-behaved.’ Mary Beard ‘Difficult Women is full of vivid detail, jam-packed with research and fizzing with provocation’ Sunday Times
Additional information
| Weight | 0.257 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.2 × 12.8 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 368 |
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| Year Published | 2021-3-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784709735 |
| About The Author | Helen Lewis is a staff writer at the Atlantic, and a former deputy editor of the New Statesman. She has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New York Times and Vogue. She is a regular host of BBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster, a regular panellist on the News Quiz and Saturday Review, and a paper reviewer on The Andrew Marr Show. She was the 2018/19 Women in the Humanities Honorary Writing Fellow at Oxford University. She tweets at @helenlewis |
| Review Quote | Whoever said feminists lack a sense of humour has not read enough Lewis… A funny, sparky, wide-ranging account… Her book isn’t at all a conventional history. It’s a collection of powerful personal essays on the gnarly issues that women continue to face… I read Difficult Women with gratitude. It’s an authoritative benchmark of modern feminism, written by someone on top of her game… Hooray for a great book by a clever, clear-sighted, straight-talking, difficult young woman. |
| Other text | Difficult Women was a joy to read… I learned so many delicious facts about women whom I thought I knew. In fact, reading Difficult Women felt like sitting down with a friend and gossiping about other women in our circle… It has some howl-out-loud funny moments… Helen Lewis does more than just tell their stories – she allows them to be complicated, something that women are so rarely permitted to be. |
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